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It’s enough to have Emmeline Pankhurst turning in her grave, but does this new Tumblr, named Women Against Feminism, prove that the new generation are just sick and tired of feminism?

The site encourages women, most of them under-25, to post pictures of themselves posing with signs that say why they don’t need feminism. Yup, you heard right.

With captions like ‘I don’t need feminism because I am not a victim’ and ‘I don’t need feminism because I believe in equality not entitlements and supremacy’, there will no doubt be uproar within the feminist community. A LOT of uproar.

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But what does feminism even mean anymore?

It’s supposed to mean equality for women – that’s the same social, economical, political, workplace and home life benefits as men. It’s supposed to mean that we get treated the same as a gender that, since history began, has had the upper hand.

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There’s no denying we’re almost there – yes, there’s still more men in senior positions at the biggest companies in the world, and yes there’s more stay-at-home women than men, but women are entitled to everything men are, give or take a few things.

(Picture: Tumblr/womenagainstfeminism)

This Tumblr is not an expression from women that they want to go backwards in time, this is an act against what the modern day feminist has come to represent in society, as the page describes it ‘a toxic culture’.

Young women are actually stepping back and saying ‘is this how we should be treating men?’ and it’s kind of nice.

(Picture: Tumblr/womenagainstfeminism)

It’s saying yes we’re grateful that we can vote and get an equal education and equal treatment in the office, but do we need to show off our tampon strings and say horrible things about men all the time, just because we can?